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edWeb.net is a highly-acclaimed professional social and learning network that has become a vibrant online community for exceptional educators, decision-makers, and influencers who are on the leading edge of innovation in education. edWeb won the 2012 Edublog Award for Best Free and Open Professional Development for Educators and was ranked the #1 professional social network specifically for educators by the SIMBA PreK-12 Professional Development Market Forecast 2012-2013, CoSN's K-12 IT Leadership Survey 2013, and the 2012 Survey of K-12 Educators on Social Networking, Online Communities, and Web 2.0 Tools.

edWeb.net is a highly-acclaimed professional social and learning network that has become a vibrant online community for exceptional educators, decision-makers, and influencers who are on the leading edge of innovation in education. edWeb won the 2012 Edublog Award for Best Free and Open Professional Development for Educators and was ranked the #1 professional social network specifically for educators by the SIMBA PreK-12 Professional Development Market Forecast 2012-2013, CoSN's K-12 IT Leadership Survey 2013, and the 2012 Survey of K-12 Educators on Social Networking, Online Communities, and Web 2.0 Tools.

Go to: http://home.edweb.net/ Excellent resource for online learning, many communities

Mindfulness resources for K-12 educators

Intel offers free, easily integrated tools and teaching resources to support collaborative student-centered learning. Our online thinking tools provide active learning places where students can engage in robust discussions, analyze complex information, pursue investigations, and solve problems. You'll also find teaching resources such as exemplary lesson plans, assessment strategies, and technology-enriched project ideas for all K-12 subjects. Developed by educators, these free tools and resources support 21st century learning, with project-based approaches in the classroom.

Website put together by Intel that contains a vast amount of professional development resources (examples, theories, positive practice) for educators. Below is Intel's description of the page:\n\nIntel® Education enables 21st century teaching and learning through free professional development, tools, and resources that help K-12 teachers engage students with effective use of technology.

Impressive.

Intel® Education enables 21st century teaching and learning through free professional development, tools, and resources that help K-12 teachers engage students with effective use of technology.

Created by ETV for K-12 students, teachers, and parents, Knowitall.org is a free online collection of resources designed for classroom use. This educational web portal contains interactive sites, simulations, image collections, virtual field trips and streaming video that support and provide quality inquiry-based experiences for students on the Internet.

A collection of resources to encourage interaction and building a community of learning for educators that seek to develop their skills and create online discussions and interaction. Organized by topics targeted to faculty, instructors, K-12 educators and instructional designers.

LiveBinder with resources on Design Thinking in K-12 Education

International Assoc. for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL)

The world of educational technology can be intimidating. Bloggers help make sense of this ever-changing industry with wit, insight and tactical advice. EdTech is proud to recognize this latest crop of the top K-12 IT bloggers. This year's 50 entries are a mix of veterans from years past, fresh picks by our editorial staff and nominations from readers.

An online social bookmarking community made exclusively for K-12 educators. Find lesson plans, activities, current events, videos, and images, correlated to state standards, for elementary school, middle school and high school subjects.

Scholastic is offering K-12 e-magazine for free during this crisis.

A compilation of math web resources that are appropriate for multiple grade levels.

Resources for math that span many levels. Elementary level focused at http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/elementarymathresources Middle/High school level focused at http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/middle-highschoolmath

This website is full of resources for clipart, backgrounds for Keynote/PowerPoint presentations, maps, technology in the classroom, and more. It is sponsored by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology and the Educational Technology Clearinghouse, which "provide(s) digital content, professional development, and technical services supporting the appropriate integration of technology into K-12 and preservice education."

Thanks Kay, this is fantastic

With the dawning of the digital age, more and more teachers, parents, and students are looking on the web for information on elementary and secondary schools. With such a wide variety of resources on hand, the amount of data to process can be overwhelming. However, we have looked at hundreds of these websites and selected the top 40 web resources K-12 education statistics for your convenience.

Short video clips on a variety of subjects.

resources on topics - youtube views are cleaned up so they are viewed in the site.

organizes resources, videos and games. contains game-making utility (Flash-based?) and presentation utility

Customizable, standards-aligned, free digital textbooks for K-12 - Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

Customizable online textbooks for a variety of subjects. History is full of terrific primary sources.

open access textbooks resources for iPad included here

Kids In Need Teacher Grants provide K-12 educators with funding to provide innovative learning opportunities for their students. The Kids In Need Foundation helps to engage students in the learning process by supporting our most creative and important educational resource - our nation's teachers.

Welcome to the most complete interactive directory of K-12 PD products and services. Whether you're looking for yourself, or an entire school district, the Teacher Professional Development Directory can help you identify accredited programs, supplemental materials, software, workshops, and more to help you meet your continuing education needs.

Links to all sorts of resources for schools, particularly related to the use of technology in K-12 schools. These pages are designed to support innovative teachers who are integrating ICT in the curriculum.